Pot Bound: The Turnish Relay

The animation focuses heavily on expressive character movement, visual humor, and environmental interaction through obstacle-based action sequences, oversized props, and cartoon-inspired pacing. Using a softer pastel-based visual direction, the production emphasizes cohesive art direction, approachable character design, and rhythm-driven scene progression to create a lighthearted but visually polished animated short with strong appeal toward stylized entertainment and commercial animation aesthetics.

From a technical perspective, the project explored stylized modelling, character rigging, environmental texturing, lighting design, camera choreography, and animation workflows developed in Autodesk Maya and Adobe Premiere Pro. Particular attention was placed on maintaining visual consistency across props, environments, and materials while balancing comedic staging, exaggerated scale relationships, and cinematic readability throughout the animation pipeline.

Presented through the stylized animation, cinematic storytelling, and animation teaching practice of Roman Jahandideh.
Technical Animation Artist, Director, and Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University.